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Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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Break Independent Team Understand
Relax. Look around. Make a call.
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Action Breathe Inspirational See
So how can a leader become great if they lack the natural characteristics necessary to lead? The answer is simple: a good leader builds a great team that counterbalances their weaknesses.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Simplicity Team Weakness
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.
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Discipline Expectation Motivational
There is no easy way.
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Easy Hard Time Inspirational
A leader must care about the troops, but at the same time the leader must complete the mission, and in doing so there will be risk and sometimes unavoidable consequences to the troops.
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Care Leadership Risk Time
Generally, when a leader struggles, the root cause behind the problem is that the leader has leaned too far in one direction and steered off course. Awareness.
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Direction Leader Problem Struggle
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
Don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.
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Quick Try Willing Yourself
Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
A good leader does not get bogged down in the minutia of a tactical problem at the expense of strategic success.
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Goodness Leadership Problem Success
Get after it.
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Inspirational One Liner
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity

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